include README.cvs-snapshot in the distribution; in README-cvs-snapshot, mention...

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 12a2f6a7e908d44e75bfd9332166d535542929c6..20bb622c591d3dd6f699c5cfdd9d59a9c809f8aa 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \
        NEWS \
        ONEWS \
        README \
+       README.cvs-snapshot
        RoadMap \
        THANKS \
        TODO \

diff --git a/README.cvs-snapshot b/README.cvs-snapshot
index e7bc7082323eb4fa7f8191b49a7abd72fc23348e..6b3a0e12d97fbb561143d1188fdc234d881ba359 100644 (file)
--- a/README.cvs-snapshot
+++ b/README.cvs-snapshot
@@ -1,10 +1,17 @@
-If you see this file, it's because you have a cvs snapshot of flex. If
-you are not interested in flex development or you are not in need of
-the latest bleeding-edge features, then this snapshot is not for you.
+This file gives information regarding cvs snapshots of flex. cvs
+snapshots of flex contain the files which are under version control by
+the flex maintainers for the flex project. These snapshots can be
+found at:
+
+ftp://ftp.uncg.edu/people/wlestes/
+
+If you are not interested in flex development or you are not in need
+of the latest bleeding-edge features, then cvs snapshots of flex are
+not for you.
 
 When you get a distribution of flex, a large number of intermediate
 files needed to make building flex easy are included. You don't have
-that in this snapshot.
+that in a cvs snapshot.
 
 You will need various external tools in order to build the distribution. Here is
 a (possibly incomplete) list of the required tools. Always get the latest
@@ -33,4 +40,5 @@ This script calls the various tools needed to get flex ready for the
 GNU-style configure script to be able to work.
 
 From this point on, building flex follows the usual configure, make,
-make install routine.
+make install routine, almost. When configuring the flex tree, pass the
+--enable-maintainer-mode option to configure.